Eddie Izzard Quotes

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

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• If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • You
  • Handle

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Things
  • Influence
  • Keep

• When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Think
  • Listen

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Want
  • Start
  • Studying

• College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • College
  • Struggle
  • Debt

• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Intelligence
  • Others

• I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Real
  • Father
  • Career

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Comedy
  • Theatre
  • Doing

• My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Impossible

• Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Growing

• I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

  

  Alan Ball

• For the first time in sixty years, the priests, the old aristocracy and the people met in a common sentiment-a feeling of revenge, it is true, and not of affection ; but even that is a great thing in politics, where a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• There are certain people I'd absolutely love to work with. I was a huge fan of 'Two and a Half Men.' The comedic timing was so perfect on that show. So maybe that show or maybe 'Modern Family.' Both of those shows have great casts.

  

  Billy Unger
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy